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It is well known that over the centuries the Dutch have (more or less) constructed their own country by building dikes (or dykes), canals and locks, creating polders, pumping water, etc. One of the first Dutchmen who thought and wrote about the art of constructing dikes and locks was Andries Vierlingh, who died in 1579.
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Alkemade, F. (2019). COPING WITH AIR AND WATER IN THE NETHERLANDS BEFORE 1918. In: A Century of Fluid Mechanics in The Netherlands. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-03586-0_2
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